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Toplines - Elena Kagan - May 16-17, 2010

Daily Snapshot

 

National Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
Conducted May 16-17, 2010

By Rasmussen Reports

 

1* How closely have you followed news stories about President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court?

 

 39% Very closely
 42% Somewhat closely
 15% Not very closely

  4% Not at all

  1% Not sure

 

2* Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable impression of Elena Kagan?

 

15% Very favorable
28% Somewhat favorable
23% Somewhat unfavorable

21% Very unfavorable

13% Not sure

 

3* The U.S. Senate has the constitutional authority to confirm all Supreme Court nominees. Based upon what you know at this time, should the U.S. Senate confirm Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court Justice?

 

39% Yes

39% No

22% Not sure

4* Regardless of whether or not you believe she should be confirmed, how likely is it that Elena Kagan will be confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice?

 

55% Very likely

28% Somewhat likely

  6% Not very likely

  1% Not at all likely

10% Not sure
 

5* In political terms is Elena Kagan liberal, moderate or conservative?

 

47% Liberal

32% Moderate
  3% Conservative

18% Not sure

 

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence